Russia plans to use an American-owned company whose assets it seized to supply food to its army, Reuters reported Thursday, ...

On Monday, the “E.T.” singer joined Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, for a historic mission to space.

In the early years of the twilight struggle against the Soviet Union—as Joseph Stalin solidified control over Central and Eastern Europe—the United States established Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

Inspired by the humble cabbage, Alissa Timoshkina’s new book, Kapusta, challenges stereotypes around Eastern European cuisine ...

Soviet Marxists maintain that under capitalism the bourgeoisie ... with jobs and money but also with privileges and priorities in respect to living quarters, food supplies and vacations at resorts on ...

The Elektronica 60 was a Soviet computer and kind of a bootleg PDP-11 that was widely used from the late 1970s into the '90s and even beyond. It's the hardware that Pajitnov originally programmed ...

Engineered for superiority, this fighter carved out a fearsome reputation during the Cold War—outmatching, outmaneuvering, and outright crushing every Soviet aircraft it encountered. Precision ...

Ukraine gave the nukes back to Russia. They weren’t Ukraine’s. This is an uncomfortable fact.” After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, ...

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles. By Clay Risen Oleg Gordievsky, who was the ...

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways. The funding cuts could lead to a decline in the number of independent ...